As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Aswan High Dam the Egyptian media has been writing a lot about the period. Here’s an interesting interview in Al-Masry Al-Youm’s English pages with a Nubian displaced by the High Dam, remembering the lost villages of Nubia and showing distinctly mixed views of Nasser.
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Ursula Lindsey has a post at The Arabist linking to an article she has published at MERIP on “Egypt’s Wall.”
She illustrates her post with this (from an original here):
“The high one (or highly-esteemed one) built the High Dam; the low one (or “low-down” one) built the low barrier.” (The word for “dam” and for “barrier” are the same in Arabic.)
Ouch.
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Will the wanton cruelty never end?
The Gaza Valley (Wadi Ghaza) used to host a river with lush banks from Hebron to the Mediterranean. For the past many years it has been transferred into a trickle of sewage after Israeli authorities built a dam and cut the water flow.
Yesterday, the Israelis decided to open the dam, causing the banks of the trickling river to flood the homes of Gaza residents.
The
BBC, silencing the perpetrator, turned the incident into an act of nature.
“On Monday seven people were killed in the region when heavy rains caused the worst flash floods seen in a decade.”
Human Rights Group
Al-Mezan described it differently, ”For the second time in less than ten years the Israeli occupation forces have flooded Palestinian homes, fields and possessions of tens of families in the Gaza Strip.”
No deaths means the English-speaking media is uninterested.
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